US1131439A - Telephone-recorder. - Google Patents

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E. B. TALLEY & R. P. NORTON.

TELEPHONE RECORDER.

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Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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TELEPHONE RECORDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1913 LIKSIAOOD Patented M21129, 1915.

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Be itknown that we, .Enwm R; Tanner and BioBEnr P. NORTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Algona, in the county of Kossuth and Stateof Iowa, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone-Recorders; and we do declare the following .to be a full, .clear,-and exact description of the invention, such as Wlll enable others skilled in the art to which it apcorded by the receiver as it is spoken by the sender and repeated later to the receiver, or possibly taken: from the instrument and repeated to any one. Much di-ificulty has been experienced in recording telephone messages in. such manner that the sender may not repndiatehis statement, and this is the pur- Broadlypose of the present invention. speaking the idea is carried out by the use of a supplemental receiver, and switch mechanism whereby it is thrown into oronto the telephone circuitso that the incoming message is received in two receivers, said supplemental receiver standing adjacent a phonograph or graphophone mechanism so that. the incoming message is recorded thereon. 1 Y The invention further consists in the details of construction and the mechanism for carrying. .out the general idea, all as hereinafter more fully described and claimed and as shown in the drawings wherein -Figure l isa front elevation and Fig. 2 a side. elevation .of'this instrument. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the casing of the instrument, showing the contained mechanism in elevation. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section, taken substantially on the line 44. of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an elevation in detail showing the train of gearsfor connecting the two drums, being'taken substantially on the line 5-5 of Fig. 6; and Fig. 6 is an elevation of the shifting mechanism, showing the parts in different position from that illustrated inFig- 3. 7 is a plan view of the-motor. Fig. ,8 is a sectional detail oithe reversing gear.

Our invention includesan ordinary telephone mounted within an amplified casing whose lower portion is designed to contain the improvement or addition thereto; said addition comprising in the present instance a motor such ,as ordinarily employed in the commerclal graphophone or dictaphone, the gnaphophone mechanism herein shown as having rec0rding and reproducing needles and means for setting them, a winding mechanism fol-the sensitized material on which the graphophone record is made (in'this instance ..a film), and the means for running this winding mechanism either forward or in reverse direction, which in the present instance are connections between the motor and the winding mechanism as shown. The telephone 1 may beot any suitabletype so long as it is adapted to this mprovement, and needs no further description as it is amply illustrated in Fig. 3. The motor M is shown as a spring motor of that class ordinarily employed in graphophones, althoughwe reserve the rightto drivethis motor electrically or in any other way. lit needs nofurtherdescription, except that we may say that a lever 1 is shown aspivoted at 2 and having an arm 3 depending from its pivot and carrying a brakeshoe adapted to be thrown into contact with a disk 5.011 the governor 6 which forms a part of this type of graphophone motor; and such contact of the brake or brake shoe a is ordinarily made by the weight of the outer end of the lever 1 which projects, through an upright slot 1 in the casing, although the lever drum 12 while its lower end is wound on another drum 13these drums and the gears connecting them constituting the winding mechanism W if a film F be employed.

However, we reserve the right to employ a disk record or avcylinde'r in connection with the graphophonefi, so longasthe generai Patented Mar. 3?, MES.

idea is maintained. In the present illustration, the power wheel 14 of the motor is belted at 15 to a driven pulley 16 whose shaft has slidably mounted thereon a gear 17 adapted 'to. be thrown directly into mesh with the gear 18 on the uppermost drum 12 to move the same in one direction, and adapted to be moved out of mesh with this gear 18 and into mesh with an idle gear 19 which in turn meshes with another gear 20 on the shaft ofthe lowermost drum 13 when the film F is to be moved in the other direction; and the means for shifting the gear 17 is typically illustrated herein as a sliding rod 21 having a handle 22.

The graphophone G is herein illustrated as comprising a recording needle 23 actuated by a diaphragm 24:, and a reproducing'needle 25 acting on a diaphragm '26 transmitting its message to a born 27 which leads through the casing to the exterior..

However we do not wish to be limited to the type of graphophone employed. In the present embodiment, also, we have shown the recorder as capable of being thrown out of action by a sliding rod'28 having a handle 29 outside of the casing, and the re producer is also capable of being thrown out of action by means of a sliding rod 30 having a handle 31 outside the casing; suitable mechanism may be employed for placingthe graphophone under the manual control of the operator receiving the messa e. It will be seen that the parts thus'far escribed may be and by preference are mechanisms of the ordinary construction now in' general use and which perform their functions as well known in the art. From -time to time the motor M is wound by means of its handle, and when the lever lis raised. this motor runs and through the connec-' tions-R it drives the film-winding mechanism W in one direction or the other according as the gear shifter is set by its handle 22. As the film F moves over the roller 10, if the recordin needle 23 is thrown into action a recor is made-upon the film; or, such a record having already, been made and the film rewound upon'the. upper drum 12, if the recorder 23 is thrown 1 out of action and the reproducing needle 25 is thrown into action, the record on the film will be reproduced through the horn 27 in a manner which will not be necessary to describe. v

Coming now more strictly to what might be called the details of the present invention as associated with the mechanisms above described, the numerals 40 and 41 designate the wires of a shunt circuit led from the line wires of the telephone "systemdown through apartition 38 preferably provided within said casing to divide the telephone compartment fat the upper porthe film F, so lon tion thereof from the remainder of the interior ofthe casing 39 which contains the recording mechanism. One. of the wires, as 40, leads through a snap switch 'or circuit breaker 43 so that the attachment can be cut out or cut in at the will of the receivingioperator, and then this wire aswell as the other wire all leads to a supplemental telephone .receiver 44 suspended below the partition 38 and with its mouth over the diaphragm 24 of the recorder of the'graphophone as best seen in Fig. 4.

Another important feature of the invention is the provision ofa tape 15'which may be of paper or might in fact beone edge of as it is wound'on the drums 12 and 13 a ongside and parallel to said film; and in the casing 39 opposite this tape orstrip 45 is formed a hole i6=through which an ordinary pencil P may be inserted the operation of this device is as follows: 1

Let-us assumethat a call. comestover the w res from some one who 1s going to make the user an important communication, such as an offer or the like, whlch 1t is important to hate recorded'for use in case of a subsequent'withdrawal. The user unhooks. the telephone receiver and is informed that this is the message that he is expecting, and immediately'he turns" the switch 43 and the lever 1. The motor now begins to run and the film- F is drawn through the graphophone mechanism G over the roller 10, and theuser has to but push in thehandle 29 to throw the recording needle 23 onto the film ready to make a record. The speaker now sends hislmessa'ge over the telephone line and it is received in the earof the user, but at the same time it-rn'ns down the shunt circuits 4H1 .and through the supplemental receiver-44 so that the diaphragm 24 causes 7 thejrecordi'ng needle 23 to make a record on the film- F. Soon the speaker rings oil, and

both-he and the user hang up their telev phone stbut the record remains on the film, and the receiver may then actuate .the

shifter by means of the handle 22 to rewind the film-first having raised the recording needle 23-after which he can throw on the reproducing. needle 25 and have the message spoken to him through the horn 27. In fact, this section of the film maybe run through the graphophone again and again to repeat what offer was made, orjif necessary it might be taken from this machine turers.

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will be obvious that the attachment will have the same functions and possibilities ifthe sensitized element F were a disk or a cylinder record, although we have illustrated it as a film and described the opera tion of a film in connection with the meeh= anism necessary to drive it-one way and the other.

The use of the indicating mechanism alongside the film F will now be obvious. If an ordinary pencil P be inserted in the hole 46 with its point against the tape 45, whenever a certain piece of thefilm F has been wound off of the drum 12 onto the drum 13 a mark will be made on the tape alongside this piece of the film, and it is quite easy for the operator to remove the pencil as he rewinds this section of film, and to ascertain by the beginning of said mark where was the beginning of the message that has just been recorded on the film throughout this stretch of the same. Of course any other suitable device may be substituted for registering or indicating what portion of the film has been.

employed, but this trivial detail is probably more useful where a film- F is utilized instead'of'a disk or cylinder.

From what has been said and from what is shown in the drawings, it will be obvious that wide modification in details may be adopted without departing from the spirit of our invention, and that much latitude must therefore be allowed to the manufac The proportions and materials of parts are obviously not essential.

What is claimed asnew is: 1. The combination with a telephone and its casing, a supplemental casing adjacent the first-named casing and separated therefrom by a transverse partition, the wall of said supplemental casing having a hole, a supplemental receiver within mental casing, a shunt circuit connecting the telephone line wires with said receiver and itself consisting of two wires led through said partition, and a snap switch in the shunt circuit and having its handle on the exterior of the casing; of a graphophone mounted within said suplemental casing and having its recording mechanism actuated by said supplemental receiver, a motor for winding and rewinding the sensitized element of the graphophone, a tape on said sensitized element and passing across the hole in the casing for the purpose set forth, and manual controls for, all the graphophone mechanisms leading to the exteriorof the casing.

2. The combination with a telephone andits casing, a supplemental casing below the the supplesaid supplemental fiisfihametl casing: and divided therefrom by a transverse partition, the wall of said supplemental e sing having an upright slot, a supplemental receiver within the supplemental-easing, a shunt circuit connecting the telephone line wires withsaid receiver and itself eensisting of two wires led through a hole in said partition, and a snap switch in one of said wires of the shunt circuit and having its handle on the exterior of the casing; of a graphophone mounted within said supplemental casing and having its recording mechanism actuated by said supplemental receiver, a motor for winding and. rewinding the sensitized element of the graphophone, a brake for the motor, a brakelever extending through said slot and normally holding the brake applied, and manual controls for the graphophone mech 'anisms leading to handles outside of the s5 3; The combination with a telephone and supplemental casing.

its casing, a supplemental casing whose wall has an upright slot and a hole, a supplemental receiver within the supplemental casing, a shunt circuit connecting the telephone line wires with said receiver, and a switch in the shunt circuit andhaving its handle on the exterior of the casing; of a graphophone mounted within said supplemental casing and having its recording mechanism actuated by said supplemental receiver, a motor for winding and rewind-.

ing the sensitized element of the graphophone, a brake' for the motor whose lever extends through said slot, and a tape paralleling said sensitized element and passing across the hole in the casing, for the purpose set forth. a

4. The combination with a telephone including a casing, a supplemental receiver therein, a shunt circuit connecting the line wires of the telephone with said receiver, and a switch in said circuit: of a graphophone also mounted in 'said casingv and having its recording mechanism actuated by receiver, a motor also arranged in thecasing for winding and rewinding' the sensitized elements of the graphophone, a governor for said motor including a brake disk, an angular lever fulorumed .at the junction of its arms within the casing and having one arm thereof disposed loosely through the front wall of said casing, the last mentioned wall of said casing being provided with a slot through which said arm is disposed, and a brake shoe carried on the end of the other arm of said lever adapted for normal engagement with the brake disk whereby to prevent the oper-,-

sensitizd band; means whereby sai barfi set our hamis in presence of two subscribing may be fed past said needle, and a compara- Witnesses.

tively rough tape formed on one edge oi;v EDWIN R. TALLEY. sairi band, whereby the beginning and end ROBERT P. NORTDN. 5 of a conversation may be manually inscribed Witnesses:

and recorded upon said tape. MABEL E. JAcoBsoN,

In testimony whereof We have hereunto E. J. VAN Nnss.

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